Baseball newsreel slate says "Yankees' Submerge Cubs' Pennant Hopes" but footage is of game 2 of the 1932 World Series at Yankee Stadium. Wide shots of 50,000 spectators in crowd. Shot of Cubs' Billy Herman leading off game with double. Shot of Yankee pitcher Lefty Gomez throwing. Shots of Cubs Kiki Cuyler reaching first on error and Riggs Stephenson hitting fly ball to score Herman from third base. Shots of Cubs' pitcher Lon Warneke walking Earle Combs in bottom of 1st inning. Closeup of Yankees' Babe Ruth in dugout. Warneke walks Joe Sewell, strikes out Ruth, gives up run-scoring single to Lou Gehrig. Shots of Cubs' Riggs Stephenson hitting double in top of 3rd, scoring on single by Frank Demaree. Shots from Yankees in bottom of third: Babe Ruth walks, goes to second on single by Gehrig; minutes later, Babe Ruth runs home on base hit, followed by Lou Gehrig, who slides into home plate. Shots of Yankee stadium from outfield stands. Fans in stands, mostly men wearing hats, stand up for various plays. At end of game, won by Yankees 5-2, happy, celebrating fans spill onto field and many paper game programs are seen floating in the wind and on the field.
Safety planes in Guggenheim Aircraft Competition. Aircraft on the field. Pilots in cockpit. The plane takes off. Burnelli CX-3 in flight. A guard tower in the background. Other plane in the field. A British entry, the Handley Page H.P. 39 "Gugnunc" with slotted wing seen on the airfield. It takes off. Other plane takes off.
Two FBI officials converse and point out location at a walled map. FBI officials exit form a car outside court and bring in captured spies for trial. Heavy crowd gather up outside court to get glimpse of saboteurs. Trials on spies including a German woman spy in progress with witnesses,officials and people and people surrounding them. June 1941.
Scenes of personnel and technicians working on German V2-Rockets. Army personnel walking about. Rocket on the launch pad (launch tower). Men fuse rocket. Final checks are made before launching.
British working men and their American counterparts on exchange visit in the United States. The group enter a building of the Star Electric Motor Company. Inside they are seen sitting in on a labor-management committee meeting. The British workers ask whether the company's worker suggestion program is successful. The company managers say it has and helped increase war production. The British ask about having any deadlocks in labor-management relations, affecting war production, and are told the U.S. War Production Board would be called upon to resolve such a matter. The issue of continuing such labor-management cooperation after the war is discussed. (World War II period)
Large crowd gathered at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. People waving farewell to the men aboard the USS Arizona (BB-39) battleship as it is launched into the East River. Steam boats and tug boats move beside the Battleship as it leaves the naval yard. Crowd on the grandstand includes the sponsor, Miss Esther Ross, and the Governor of Arizona, George Hunt. Also Eva Behn, Salee King, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, Marie Farroll who was Maid of Honor, and Mrs. Ross, the mother of the sponsor. Views of the USS-Arizona underway in the East River, surrounded by many small tug boats and steam ships.
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